Recaps

Bai Yujun eavesdropped on a meeting where the Green Wood Demon King urged Cloud Remote Ancient Village to join an alliance against the Tang army. After leaving the tower, she saw bloody Killing Intent gathering over many men in the village, signaling that they would be caught up in an approaching slaughter.

• Bai Yujun listened to the tower meeting by sensing vibrations through a wooden beam, bypassing the spell that blocked magical eavesdropping.
• Bai Yujun learned that Wind Thunder Cliff wanted the Green Wood Demon King and nearby White Tribe villages to unite against the Central Plains forces and ambush the Tang army.
• Bai Yujun suspected something was wrong because Wind Thunder Cliff’s demonic forces should not have suffered such heavy losses against the Tang army.
• Bai Yujun left the tower and realized that Cloud Remote Ancient Village would likely join the alliance.
• Bai Yujun saw blood-red Killing Intent gathering over many village men and feared they would face a deadly calamity.

Bai Yujun tried to protect her reputation by warning the villagers not to travel far, claiming the gods had issued an oracle. After Mu Duo paid her for an explanation, Bai Yujun revealed that she expected the expedition to suffer devastating losses, leaving Mu Duo troubled by the warning.

• Bai Yujun abandoned her attempt to persuade the leaders to avoid war and decided to protect her reputation instead.
• The Green Wood Demon King returned to Green Wood Mountain to prepare for war while the old priest and chieftain planned the village’s expedition.
• Bai Yujun beat the village drum and told the gathered villagers that a divine oracle forbade them from traveling more than a hundred li over the next year.
• Mu Duo dragged Bai Yujun away from the crowd and asked whether the oracle was real.
• Bai Yujun took Mu Duo’s gold hairpin as payment and claimed she had predicted the expedition by reading the stars and divining.
• Bai Yujun warned Mu Duo that the expedition would likely suffer devastating losses and said she had intervened to protect her reputation as the sacred beast.

Bai Yujun warned Mu Duo that the village’s planned war was dangerous, then fled to a secluded mountain pool while Mu Duo failed to stop the Nine Li from preparing for battle. As Bai Yujun hid from a passing monk, she wondered why he had come from the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

• Bai Yujun insisted she had told Mu Duo the truth, then left for the deep mountains to avoid being blamed for what happened.
• Mu Duo urged the old priest and chieftain to postpone sending troops, but they agreed only to send half their forces while the rest stayed in the village.
• The Nine Li villagers prepared for war as Mu Duo watched anxiously and worried that the plan against the Central Plains people might fail.
• Bai Yujun relaxed in a warm mountain pool, reflected on her slow cultivation, and hid underwater when she sensed someone approaching.
• Bai Yujun saw that the passing figure was a monk and wondered why he had come from the depths of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

Bai Yujun strengthened Snake Valley’s defenses as the war between the Central Plains, Jiuli, and demons spread through the mountains. The chapter left the armies of Jiuli and its demonic allies gathered against a strained Li Tang force, with the Baleful Intent growing denser.

• Bai Yujun drove hyenas away from two human corpses and saw the forest damage caused by the fighting and fire spells.
• Bai Yujun expanded the swamps and miasma around Snake Valley, then considered hiding in the Underground Dark River Cave as the Baleful Intent intensified.
• More than thirty thousand warriors from Cloud Remote Ancient Village, Divine Cave Tribe, and Thousand Leaf Village assembled alongside nearly ten thousand demonic beasts from Green Wood Mountain and Wind Thunder Cliff.
• Li Tang’s army faced poor terrain, unfamiliar conditions, and depleted strength, while its conscripted soldiers lacked training.

Chunyang’s leaders discussed the war in the Southern Wasteland and Yu Rong warned that the Fiend Stars and demonic sects made the conflict dangerous for everyone. Gan Wu set out to visit Bai Yujun, carrying Chu Zhe’s gifts and message as Yu Rong and Qi Yun prepared to follow with the Great Sects’ leaders.

• Yu Rong told Gu Cangyu and the other leaders that the Southern Wasteland war was being manipulated and that Chunyang should help prevent the aftermath from harming Jiuli and the demon beasts.
• Yu Rong decided to travel south with Qi Yun and gather the Great Sects’ leaders, while Qi Yun agreed to bring Gan Wu to visit Bai Yujun.
• Gan Wu departed for the Southern Wasteland as a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator and Chunyang Purple Void’s foremost successor.
• Chu Zhe gave Gan Wu a storage pouch filled with treasures for Bai Yujun and asked him to tell her to return soon.
• Gan Wu accepted Chu Zhe’s message, then left the mountain through the snow.

Bai Yujun emerged from hiding to find the Hundred Thousand Mountains engulfed in flames after Southern Wasteland’s defeat. As the Demon Kings arrived to confront the Central Plains forces, she summoned rain to save Snake Valley, but three Golden Core Cultivators attacked her.

• Bai Yujun left the underground river and discovered that a vast fire was consuming the forest and driving its creatures to flee.
• She saw the Golden Roc and two monks hunting the Green Wood Demon King, while humans attacked fleeing demonic beasts and Green Crow fought against the Golden Roc’s side.
• Seven Demon Kings and other Southern Wasteland forces arrived, forcing the powerful cultivators to break off their fight and the opposing armies to face each other.
• With the fire approaching Snake Valley, Bai Yujun transformed into the White Snake and gathered dark rain clouds using her innate divine ability.
• Three Golden Core Cultivators flew at Bai Yujun and launched their swords as she tried to bring rain.

Bai Yujun fought off cultivators while desperately trying to summon rain before a wildfire consumed Snake Valley. As the flames spread and the snakes died, the attackers closed in on her, but their weapons suddenly snapped apart.

• Bai Yujun used her instant attack and suction talents to kill one of three cultivators, then drove the others back with her tail.
• Bai Yujun summoned wind, rain, and lightning as the wildfire advanced toward Snake Valley and the cultivators fanned the flames.
• The fire entered Snake Valley, killing eggs, hatchlings, and a female snake that stayed to guard her eggs.
• Bai Yujun pushed herself to summon rain while the two surviving cultivators returned with five or six companions to attack her.
• The cultivators charged Bai Yujun, but their magic treasures and flying swords abruptly broke apart.

Gan Wu arrived to protect Bai Yujun, and she summoned a torrential rainstorm that extinguished the mountain fire and halted the Central Plains cultivators’ advance. When a monk tried to capture her for her rare rain-summoning ability, Gan Wu and the injured Green Wood Demon King intervened, shattering his golden palm.

• Gan Wu revealed that Bai Yujun was Chunyang’s third disciple and agreed to protect her while she summoned rain.
• Bai Yujun called down a heavy storm that extinguished the fire threatening Snake Valley and weakened the Central Plains cultivators’ fire spells.
• The Central Plains cultivators withdrew as the rain stopped their advance, while a monk decided to capture Bai Yujun and make her a spirit beast.
• A Deity Transformation Stage monk formed a golden palm to seize Bai Yujun, but Gan Wu and the Green Wood Demon King attacked together and shattered it.

Gan Wu fought a Deity Transformation Stage monk while Bai Yujun joined the counterattack against the Western Teachings forces. The rain-driven slaughter continued as Bai Yujun cut down their fleeing disciples, including a young monk.

• Gan Wu challenged the kindly-faced monk with a sword strike, and the Green Wood Demon King joined the fight against him.
• Bai Yujun summoned Hengdao from Snake Valley and flew toward the Western Teachings disciples as the rain helped the demons regain the advantage.
• Bai Yujun attacked the fleeing disciples, killing dozens of Foundation Establishment Realm and Qi Refining Stage cultivators while sparing Golden Core Stage opponents who were not monks.
• A young monk fled through the ash-covered mountains, questioning the violence and vowing to avoid fighting after he returned.
• Bai Yujun passed the young monk, who was left impaled through the chest on a charred tree branch.

Bai Yujun turned the storm into her own domain and fought more than a dozen Golden Core Western Teachings monks while Gan Wu kept their Deity Transformation Stage monk occupied. She seized one monk by the throat, leaving him choking on blood as the battle continued.

• Bai Yujun froze the rain across a two-li domain, forged countless water blades, and attacked the Western Teachings disciples.
• The disciples raised a golden bell shield and then surrounded Bai Yujun, but she used a water serpent and Wind Blades to block their spells and counterattack.
• Bai Yujun intensified the storm by dragging down a black cloud, while the fox demon and Badger Demon endured the downpour below.
• Bai Yujun created several more water serpents and disrupted the Golden Core monks’ attacks with the rain and wind.
• Bai Yujun suddenly appeared beside one distracted monk, seized his neck, and retreated as he began choking and coughing blood.

Bai Yujun fought off the Western Teachings monks until Rain Swallow arrived and the battle halted at the approach of powerful masters. Gan Wu told Bai Yujun that her master had come and gave her a storage pouch from Chu Zhe, but she only kept the gemstone attached to it.

• Bai Yujun killed one monk with the help of the monks’ own chaotic spells and venomously injured another while enduring their attacks.
• A Nascent Soul Expert arrived, but Rain Swallow intercepted him and gave Bai Yujun the chance to keep fighting.
• Gan Wu and Green Wood Demon King joined forces against a Deity Transformation Stage opponent as the wider battle raged.
• The fighters on both sides withdrew when powerful figures arrived, and Gan Wu told Bai Yujun that his master Qi Yun and her master had come.
• Gan Wu gave Bai Yujun the storage pouch sent by Chu Zhe, but Bai Yujun tore off its gemstone and returned the pouch.

After the battle, Bai Yujun accepted pills from Gan Wu and chose to remain in the Southern Wasteland rather than return to Mount Hua. As the powerful figures continued their stalemate, she met the Green Wood Demon King and began imagining a future trading across the regions.

• Bai Yujun swallowed a bottle of pills from the storage pouch Gan Wu delivered on behalf of his senior brother.
• Bai Yujun told Gan Wu she wanted to keep wandering the Southern Wasteland, where she could eat and drink for free, rather than return to Mount Hua.
• Bai Yujun and Gan Wu waited on a boulder while the powerful figures remained gathered in the clouds and Central Plains cultivators began withdrawing.
• The Green Wood Demon King thanked Gan Wu for helping her fight a Deity Transformation Stage monk and invited Bai Yujun to visit Green Wood Mountain.
• Bai Yujun imagined becoming a wealthy merchant trading between the Central Plains, Jiuli, and demon beast lands, while Gan Wu mistook her excitement for homesickness.

Bai Yujun waited through the night with Gan Wu for her master, Yu Rong, to arrive. Yu Rong apologized for what Bai Yujun had endured and began giving her rare gifts and protective treasures.

• Bai Yujun waited on a rain-soaked rock beside Gan Wu as the burned forest emptied and dawn arrived.
• Gan Wu teased Bai Yujun about her poor eyesight, and she mistook their approaching master for a tiny figure.
• Qi Yun arrived first, questioned Bai Yujun about her cultivation, and noticed the gemstone she was holding.
• Yu Rong arrived, and Bai Yujun formally greeted her after more than two hundred years apart.
• Yu Rong apologized for failing to protect Bai Yujun and gave her a Dragon Saliva Fruit, a protective piece of jewelry, and other gifts.

After Yu Rong and the others departed, Bai Yujun restored Snake Valley’s damaged habitat and guarded it until the miasma and wildlife returned. The valley recovered, but the three Fiend Stars still foretold trouble, while Mu Duo struggled to manage Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s losses.

• Yu Rong left Bai Yujun in Snake Valley after giving her treasures, scriptures, and cultivation guidance, and warned the Western Teachings before departing.
• Bai Yujun found Snake Valley devastated by Blazing Fire and decided to restore its swamp and miasma without asking anyone for help.
• Bai Yujun drove away raptors, used beast carcasses and her shed scales to protect the valley, and killed lesser demons that entered to feed.
• Over several months, Bai Yujun summoned wind and rain, and Snake Valley’s miasma, forests, birds, and beasts gradually recovered as her cultivation improved.
• Bai Yujun reflected on the three Fiend Stars and the damage to the Nine Li White Tribe villages, then returned to her Bamboo House to sleep.
• Mu Duo continued managing Cloud Remote Ancient Village while its chieftain recovered and the old priest grieved, then sat awake alone by the moonlight.

Bai Yujun visited Cloud Remote Ancient Village, cheered its struggling people, and learned that Black Rock Ancient Village’s young chieftain was pressuring Mu Duo to marry him. Mu Duo said she would accept the marriage if it was necessary to protect her village, and Bai Yujun rejected the idea.

• Bai Yujun passed over the rice terraces, and the mountain folk welcomed the sight of their sacred beast as an auspicious sign.
• Bai Yujun flew into Cloud Remote Ancient Village to lift the villagers’ spirits and met Mu Duo, who said the chieftain was recovering.
• Cai'er told Bai Yujun that Black Rock Ancient Village’s young chieftain had threatened to occupy the village unless Mu Duo married him.
• Mu Duo explained that Black Rock Ancient Village’s sacred beast was a peacock, and Bai Yujun vowed to punish the young chieftain if he returned.
• Mu Duo said she would marry him if there was no other way, and Bai Yujun insisted that it could not happen.

Bai Yujun avoided a direct fight with Black Rock Ancient Village by secretly diverting its spring water. The village began searching for the culprit while Bai Yujun disappeared into an underground river.

• Mu Duo urged Bai Yujun not to provoke Black Rock Ancient Village, but Bai Yujun said she would find another way and asked where the village was.
• Bai Yujun flew southwest to Black Rock Ancient Village on the day of its spring-worship festival.
• When a young villager went to draw the sacred water, he discovered that the spring had run dry, and the priest and chieftain realized the village's water supply was gone.
• The chieftain ordered the villagers to search the mountain and arrest any strangers, suspecting someone had sabotaged the spring.
• Bai Yujun left a hidden karst cave after diverting the water underground and drying up the springs within ten li of Black Rock Ancient Village.
• Bai Yujun slipped into an underground river and vanished while Black Rock Ancient Village searched for her.

Bai Yujun left Cloud Remote Ancient Village to visit Green Wood Mountain, while Black Rock Ancient Village used witchcraft to identify her as the one who blocked its springs. Black Rock’s leaders sought her help, but she was already exploring demon territory when a wildcat demon spotted her.

• Bai Yujun returned to Cloud Remote Ancient Village, then flew toward Green Wood Mountain for sightseeing.
• Black Rock Ancient Village’s priest used witchcraft to identify Cloud Remote Ancient Village’s White Snake as the culprit behind its dried springs.
• Black Rock’s chieftain blamed Suomu, organized water-gathering measures, and set out with the peacock demon to confront Cloud Remote Ancient Village.
• The Black Rock delegation asked Mu Duo to have Bai Yujun restore the springs, but Mu Duo told them she had gone sightseeing at Green Wood Mountain.
• Bai Yujun entered demon territory and waited along a mountain patrol path until a wildcat demon came across her.

Bai Yujun entered Green Wood Mountain, passed a brief inspection, and explored the demon territory. After collecting discarded materials, she built a forge and opened a shop to sell weapons, leaving demon beasts gathered around her first displayed sabers.

• A wildcat demon led Bai Yujun into Green Wood Mountain, where a King Butterfly allowed her to wander but forbade her from going up the mountain.
• Bai Yujun explored the territory and collected materials the demon beasts considered useless, earning a reputation as a scavenger.
• Bai Yujun decided to open a shop and built a house near the demon beasts’ burrow district.
• Bai Yujun hired a family of three marmots to dig a cave and helped prepare a furnace for forging Magic Tools.
• Bai Yujun forged several ring-pommel sabers and displayed them in her shed as curious demons gathered to look.

Bai Yujun opened a weapon shop on Green Wood Mountain and traded Ring-pommel Sabers for ore, quickly attracting a crowd of demons. As business flourished, she forged weapons for them and beat down a demon general who tried to seize them.

• Hong Guo became the shop’s first customer and exchanged a large haul of Zhan Iron Ore for a Ring-pommel Saber.
• Hong Guo showed off his new weapon, and rumors of his victory inspired more than a dozen demons to visit Bai Yujun’s shop.
• Bai Yujun offered sabers in exchange for ore and gemstones, taking orders and forging weapons as demons brought in materials.
• The newly armed demons tested their sabers and ran across Green Wood Mountain looking for opponents to challenge.
• A demon general tried to seize weapons, but Bai Yujun challenged him and beat him up.

Bai Yujun spent over two years forging weapons on Green Wood Mountain, then moved on to the Black Bear demon king’s territory to continue trading weapons for rare metals. After nearly three more years, she left with a fortune in resources and a growing reputation among the beasts of the Hundred Thousand Mountains.

• Bai Yujun forged weapons for Green Wood Mountain’s monsters, strengthening them and deterring rival beasts from entering their territory.
• After business slowed, Bai Yujun shut down her forge, said farewell to her neighbors, and set out carrying weapons to mark herself as a Weapon Merchant.
• Bai Yujun traveled to the Black Bear demon king’s territory, rebuilt her forge, and traded weapons for Metal Ore and other materials.
• Bai Yujun attracted customers ranging from low-level beasts to monsters at the Demon Core Stage, building up a large stock of rare metals.
• After nearly three years, Bai Yujun closed her shop again and continued her journey, while the armed beasts of the outskirts began troubling cultivators of the Central Plains.

Twelve years later, Bai Yujun awakened from a long sleep with her cultivation stabilized and new, more ferocious features, then visited Cloud Remote Ancient Village to ask Mu Duo what was happening to her appearance. After stopping the rain she had caused, she and Mu Duo went to consult the old priest.

• Bai Yujun woke after three days of sleep, stabilized at the middle stage of the demon core realm, and discovered that her tail had grown bone spurs and her mouth had lengthened.
• Bai Yujun tested her stronger bite on a tree, then flew through the storm to Cloud Remote Ancient Village to ask Mu Duo about her changing appearance.
• Bai Yujun's arrival revealed that her presence had caused the heavy rain, so Mu Duo told her to stop it before it triggered a mountain flood.
• Bai Yujun calmed the storm, and the villagers celebrated her as a holy beast before she transformed and followed Mu Duo to the old priest's residence.
• Bai Yujun ate the villagers' offerings and, after Mu Duo dragged her inside, continued eating without tasting the food.

Bai Yujun learned from an ancient record that her evolution toward a flood dragon could bring a heavenly lightning tribulation. The warning left her fearing death, and she ended the chapter awake and anxious about her future.

• Bai Yujun showed Mu Duo, the old priest, and Shui Yun how much her body had changed, and the old priest went to search the ancient records.
• Shui Yun brought down an animal-hide book, and the old priest found an illustration and account of a giant snake that sought to become a flood dragon.
• The old priest explained that a hui serpent could become a flood dragon and that the giant snake in the record had been struck by heavenly lightning.
• Bai Yujun realized her own evolution might require a tribulation, lost her appetite, and left the village feeling distressed.
• Bai Yujun spent the night unable to sleep, imagining the lightning tribulation and wondering whether to slow her cultivation.

After years of trading among the mountain folk, Bai Yujun withdrew to Snake Valley when rumors that she was a Mountain Ghost drove customers away. She cared for the snake spirits and their young, then kidnapped a hulusi player so she could learn the instrument.

• Bai Yujun noticed that the mountain folk had grown wary of her unchanged appearance, and an old woman warned her to stop setting up her stall.
• Bai Yujun returned to Snake Valley and shared tea with Qing Ling, a newly transformed snake spirit who helped watch over the valley.
• Bai Yujun stopped visiting the markets and strengthened Snake Valley's Earth Vein Dragon Qi to help the young snakes hatch and survive.
• Bai Yujun heard a Jiuli mountain folk playing the hulusi and kidnapped him to learn the instrument.
• Bai Yujun released the hulusi player after learning that craftsmen in Cloud Remote Ancient Village could make the instrument.

Bai Yujun learned to play the hulusi and prepared to leave the Southern Wilderness, entrusting Snake Valley to Mu Duo and Cloud Remote Ancient Village. She finally set out along the river toward the wider world, leaving the mountains behind.

• Bai Yujun learned the hulusi from two Jiuli girls and played South of the Colorful Clouds for Mu Duo and the others.
• Bai Yujun told Mu Duo she planned to travel, and Mu Duo asked to hear about the Central Plains and offered to watch Snake Valley.
• Bai Yujun brought Qing Ling to meet Cloud Remote Ancient Village and warned its chieftain to care for Snake Valley while she was away.
• Bai Yujun stored valuables in her underground cavern and reluctantly parted from her massive diamond.
• Bai Yujun said farewell to Qing Ling and Cloud Remote Ancient Village, then walked east out of the Southern Wilderness as her Jiuli Attire changed into a fitted white outfit.

Bai Yujun traveled through the Central Plains, practicing her rain-summoning talent as she wandered and fished. She stopped her rain to spare a village from flooding, then continued on until she discovered Bamboo Spring Temple and its young novice monk.

• Bai Yujun met Yuan at a village entrance, and he asked her to divert her rain to prevent mountain floods; she apologized and took another route.
• Bai Yujun fished at Mirror Lake, angrily chased off a frog, and startled a young scholar who saw her swallow a crucian carp whole.
• Bai Yujun reflected on her carefree travels and on how life in the Central Plains differed from life in the Nine Li.
• Bai Yujun discovered Bamboo Spring Temple, where an old monk warned his novice disciple to avoid talking to women before sending him down the mountain to beg for alms.